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Grassroots Gardens WNY (GGWNY) enables community-led efforts to revitalize the city and enhance quality of life through the creation and maintenance of community gardens that beautify blocks, grow healthy food, and strengthen neighborhood spirit. Grassroots Gardens of Western New York is a determined group of activists who educate and lead committed neighborhood gardeners. We collaboratively cultivate and manage more than 300,000 square feet (and growing!) of green space in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Our work is rooted in the belief that a garden has the power to transform an urban neighborhood. Gardens deliver beauty and escape and produce healthy food. A garden creates a shared sense of purpose that empowers a community and acts as a vehicle for environmental awareness and public health in unexpected places that previously had little to no value. Since 2010, Grassroots Gardens’ network of community and school gardens has doubled to over 100 gardens. We steward a network of over 2,000 gardeners tending over 300,000 square feet of previously vacant land. These gardeners represent more than 30 cultural backgrounds, and cultivate more than 150 varieties of vegetables and fruits in gardens that are designed and maintained by and for the communities they are in. This growing season, we will provide roughly 250 cubic yards of soil and mulch, 6500 seedlings, 500 seed packets, and enough lumber to construct nearly 100 raised beds for food production. In 2015, an estimated 30,000 lbs of food was produced by our gardeners. We anticipate more than 35,000 in 2016.

The Land Institute co-leads the global movement for perennial, diverse, truly regenerative agriculture at a scale that matches the enormity of the intertwined climate, water, and food security crises.

Founded in 2010, Brooklyn Grange is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US, fostering more livable and climate adapted cities. We restore the connection between people and the natural world through food, education, and events. As a pioneer in the Rooftop and Urban Agriculture arena, Brooklyn Grange offers design, installation, and consulting services to clients around the world. From small private urban landscaping projects, to full scale production farms, we can help clients throughout every step of the process. With the two most unique and scenic urban rooftop venues in the world, Brooklyn Grange is available as a film location and private event venue. From weddings and private dinners, to full scale film productions, we host and help plan a diverse range of events and creative happenings. Brooklyn Grange is continually expanding to rooftops in New York City and beyond, bringing viable commercial urban agriculture further into the mainstream as well as closer to our customers than ever before. “Fresh off the elevator” is the pinnacle of urban hyper-local food sourcing.